The future looks bright for the Dallas Mavericks. They have the Slovenian Sensation Luka Dončić who is swishing and dishing all over the NBA despite being a 19 year old rookie. They have also traded for Kristaps Porzingis, the 7’3″ 23 year old do-it-all NBA All-Star and Tim Hardaway Jr, a 26 year old super athletic shooter and scorer. Over the past few years the Mavericks have been able to find and develop quality young role players and defenders in Dorian Finney-Smith and Maxi Kleber. On top of it all, the Mavericks will have a good chunk of free cap space this summer to try to add to the stable of talent.

Power Forward is not the deepest or most talented free agent position group this season, not as many game changers up for grabs as in our free agent Center rankings. Regardless, there is still some very good young talen and potentially some great value for the Mavs to use a portion of their $57 million available this summer if they look in the right places. With no power forward on the roster beyond this season, depending on the Dwight Powell player option for $10 million, the Mavs will have to be in the mix for some of these guys. Let’s take a look at some of the top candidates.

As the Dallas Mavericks playoff hopes are beginning to be questioned and trade rumors swirling around the team and the rest of the NBA, it is a good time to revisit the most important topic for the team which is upcoming free agency.

Santa, if your reading this, thank you for all of the tanks you gave us the last few years, they really helped! But all I want for Christmas this year is another elite player to join Luka Doncic and Dennis Smith Jr to build the next great Champion Dallas Mavericks team. Oh, and for Dirk’s legs to work again, thank you!

Point guard is one of the positions that the Mavericks really don’t need make a move on this offseason. Dennis Smith Jr shows great promise, continuing to build on a very impressive rookie season and Jalen Brunson is a proven winner who has shown to be very effective in his limited minutes. Luka Doncic will also be a primary ball handler so it is not necessary to bring in another big name point guard. With that said, there are some very good players on this list, and in an era where shooting and player movement most important, you may regret overlooking these guys just because we already have a few guards.

Next on our continued search for the players that will be the next Dallas Mavericks championship team, we will take a look at potential upcoming free agents fro the Small Forward position. This is a list loaded with talent and game changing players, most of the great players have player options for next season but some lucky team may be able to lure one of these All Stars to a new city.

Power Forward is not the deepest or most talented free agent position group this season, not as many game changers up for grabs as in our free agent Center rankings. Regardless, there could be great value for the Mavs to use some of their $57 million available this summer if they look in the right places. With no power forward on the roster beyond this season (depending on the Dwight Powell player option) the Mavs will have to be in the mix for some of these guys. Let’s take a look at some of the top candidates.

As we discovered in our previous free agent article, the Mavs have an estimated $52 Million available in the summer of 2019 free agency. Of the few players that we actually have under contract for next season, none of them are Centers. DeAndre Jordan signed a one year “see how it goes” contract in the summer of 2018 to finally join the Mavs after the twitter debacle a few years earlier when he signed then changed his mind.

The short-term goal for the Mavericks this season is to make the playoffs, this is what Coach Carlisle and the players have said since training camp. The long-term goal, however, is to build a dynasty with yearly title expectations that’s built around Luka Doncic and Dennis Smith Jr. The Mavericks went all-in on Luka Doncic this summer by trading our 2018 #5 overall pick and next year’s 1st round pick to the Atlanta Hawks. By giving up our first round pick the Mavericks best chance to jump from playoff contender to title contender is through free agency this summer.